I know i might be showin my age, about around 1.20 is what I remember. I always like watching older movies and seeing the gas prices during the movies and reminisce, "Those were the days..." You can almost date movies that way.

I remember paying 43 cents a gallon for my first 20-gallon fillup. For that tank of gas I had to work an entire DAY- 6 and a half hours at 1.60 an hour, which was minimum wage at the time. By the end of my first year of driving, though, gas had gone up over 70 percent, and by the end of that year I was paying over 70 cents a gallon. This was 1978.

I'm showing my age, but I remember 29 cents. I had a VW bug then and could fill up for under $3.00 and run for 2 weeks.

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can remeber those days, had a 68 bug, for $5 could fill the tank, buy a can of snuff, coke in a bottle and a gob.
Drink the coke take it back in for money and had some change to get another.
This was in PA, Johnstown area.

can remeber those days, had a 68 bug, for $5 could fill the tank, buy a can of snuff, coke in a bottle and a gob.
Drink the coke take it back in for money and had some change to get another.
This was in PA, Johnstown area.

Ha...ha....not a granpa yet, but getting up in age. Had children late in life so if do become a grandpa...well lets put it this way, I will be in my mid/late 60's when my girls get out of college.

A gob is a round chocolate cake about the size of a softball, cut in half with frosting in the center. If I can remember correctly they had some guy/kid on the wrapper. And the coke was real coke, (no not the drug kind) it just tasted different from a glass bottle.